North Gauteng High Court to make ruling on Zuma Corruption Charges leave to appeal

23 June 2016

Tomorrow the North Gauteng High Court will tomorrow hand down judgement in the application for leave to appeal against the judgment of a full bench in the case of Zuma's Corruption Charges. 

This comes after arguments were presented to the Court earlier this month regarding President Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority’s leave to appeal. This marks a seminal day in a protracted battle to uphold the Rule of Law above which no man, not even the President, is above.

This comes after the DA last night received the Court’s notice that they were scheduled to hand down judgement in an application for leave to appeal that the DA believes amounts to further litigation at the taxpayers’ expense.

At the time the Court reserved judgement which indicates that the Court is insistent on giving this application its full and careful attention – and we are confident that it will come to a favourable finding by dismissing the NPA’s and Zuma's application when it hands down judgment.

This will come after the full bench of the North Gauteng High Court already  found that that “the envisaged prosecution against Mr Zuma was not tainted by the allegations against Mr McCarthy. Mr Zuma should face the Charges as outlined in the indictment.”

We are confident that the Court will find in our favour and it will then finally be time for President Zuma to have his day in court, affording him the opportunity to defend himself, without fear or favour, on the 783 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering which he now currently faces. 

I, James Selfe MP, will be present on behalf of the DA in my capacity as Chairperson of the DA’s Federal Executive.

Issued by James Selfe, Chairperson of the DA's Federal Executive, 23 June 2016